This article seeks to compare Singapore’s current intellectual property laws with her obligations under the TRIPs Accord. The article seeks to demonstrate that whilst Singapore’s intellectual property laws are well developed, Singapore will have to adjust some of her existing intellectual proper...   MORE>>

Introduction

The protection of intellectual property rights in developing countries has been problematic since the genesis of the international system in the nineteenth century. From the moment a select group of European countries concluded a multilateral agreement for the protection of industria...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

Most of us have business clients who advertise their goods or services. Suppose one day next week one of your clients calls and advises you that her business has been sued by a competitor who claims to have been tortiously injured as a result of your client’s trademark infringem...   MORE>>

“There is no inevitable historical force that drives the technological-economic moment toward an open, diverse, liberal equilibrium. If the transformation . . . actually generalizes and stabilizes, it could lead to substantial redistribution of power and money. The twentieth-century industrial pro...   MORE>>

“The Internet is very, very much like the physical world. And we keep applying a lot of nonsensical rules to it that don’t match our current experience. The physical world is a dangerous place. Have you forgotten?”[1]

INTRODUCTION

Trade dress protection of websites was not intended by th...   MORE>>

INTRODUCTION

Computers and computer software command an ever expanding and prominent role in the world, and are constantly evolving. Thus, various international governments are fraught with enacting appropriate legislation associated with protection of computer software. Should the United States ...   MORE>>

PANELISTS:

PROFESSOR LAWRENCE LESSIG, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University

PROFESSOR F. SCOTT KIEFF, Associate Professor, Washington University School of Law and National ellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

PROFESSOR G. MARCUS COLE, Helen L. Cro...   MORE>>

“Can you tell me,” asked Sir John, “how long it took you to knock out that nocturne?”

“Two days,” replied Whistler.

“The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?”

“No,” replied Whistler, “I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”[1] <...   MORE>>

NOTES

“The modern state owes and attempts to perform a duty to protect the public from those who seek . . . to obtain its money. When one does so through the practice of a calling, the state may have an interest in shielding the public against the untrustworthy, the incompetent, or the irrespo...   MORE>>

NOTES

“[E]xclusion may be . . . the very essence of the right conferred by the patent, as it is the privilege of any owner of property to use or not use it, without question of motive.”[1]

I. Introduction

A patent entitles its owner to exclude others from making, using, offering for...   MORE>>